Education: Sit-Down Strike

One balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation,
a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High
School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200
enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school,
alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter,
Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language
classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to
the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian,
Croatian, Slovenian). At 1:40 the sit-downers called it...